Events

• 14 September - Flight of the Earls
  Flight of the Earls
  The Flight of the Earls took place on 14 September 1607, when Hugh Ó Neill of Tír Eóghain, Rory Ó Donnell of Tír Chonaill and about ninety followers left Ireland for mainland Europe.-Background to the exile:...
  
  : Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell
  Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell
  Rudhraighe Ó Domhnaill, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell was the last King of Tír Chonaill . An apparent original of the Letters Patent of the Earldom are in the possession of Graf O'Donell von Tyrconnell in Austria, although that family did not inherit the title, nor the related territorial Lordship of...
  
   flee to Spain
  Spain
  Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
  
   to avoid capture by the English
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
   crown.
• Lifford
  Lifford
  Lifford is the county town of County Donegal, Ireland. It is the administrative capital of the county and the seat of Donegal County Council, although the town of Letterkenny is often mistaken for fulfilling this role...
  
   comes into the possession of Sir Richard Hansard during the Plantation of Ulster
  Plantation of Ulster
  The Plantation of Ulster was the organised colonisation of Ulster—a province of Ireland—by people from Great Britain. Private plantation by wealthy landowners began in 1606, while official plantation controlled by King James I of England and VI of Scotland began in 1609...
  
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• The Kingdom of East Breifne
  East Breifne
  East Breifne was an historic kingdom of Ireland roughly corresponding to County Cavan....
  
   is disestablished after the Flight of the Earls and is settled by English and Scottish colonists.

Births

• 20 March - Lady Alice Boyle, later Alice Barry, Countess of Barrymore (d.1667
  1667 in Ireland
  -Births:* 30 November - Jonathan Swift, cleric, satirist, essayist and poet -Deaths:*23 June - Lady Alice Boyle, later Alice Barry, Countess of Barrymore ....
  
  ).